On Tue, 28 May 2002 13:45:36
J Burgeson wrote:
>
>Stuart wrote: "This premise is debatable, and can logically be demonstrated
>to be erroneous:
>If one acknowledges that God is omnipotent, all power, where does the
>power to act against His will come from? It can only come from the
>denial that God is omnipotent, or the dubious acknowledgement that
>there is another power apart from God, a simple error of bad logic,
>superstition and erroneous thinking, which, if affirmed, is a clear
>violation of the first commandment."
>
>It is "bad logic" only if one assumes that omnipotence implies that
>Godcontrols everything. But one may simply assume that while God COULD
>control our every thought and action, He chooses not to do so. So I see
>neither "bad logic" nor any violation of the 1st commandment here.
>
>Burgy

John,
If I read you right, you are saying that omnipotence is dependent on
our assumptions. No offense, but that is kind of arrogant, and I'm
sure you know the old 'ass of you and me' joke. What else could
omnipotence mean, than all power, supreme control, absolute
jurisdiction over all creation. I fear you are making the classic
mistake of ascribing human limitation to the divine province. I mean
no offence, John, we are all somewhat guilty of it. Christ said, Ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. Do you not
feel that God is truly omnipotent? It may be easier to understand
omnipotence if you allow the other qualities associated with the
supreme being, omniscience, and omnipresence, or the all-knowing,
the only true knowledge, the only true intelligence, even the only
Mind, and all-presence, the only presence, the true being of being,
that which Paul spoke of in which 'we live, and move and have our
being'. I do not think that God tries to control our thought!
s a
nd actions, but that we don't always listen for and acknowledge the
true thoughts, or the liberating wisdom and intelligence which He is
steadily supplying us with. That is why He sent His son for our
salvation, so we might learn, through the Wayshower, how to better
listen and obey the call of omnipotent wisdom and intelligence, which
brings the light of salvation, and which is the benefit of having
'that mind in us which was also in Christ Jesus'.

'Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
up' James 4:10